Baird of the land

Think that is a very harsh handball. The ball hits his hand in front of his face.

Thought he was very jeckyll and hyde. First half anonymous, second half very good.

I also enjoyed Coleman complaining to the ref about our usual 70 minute stoppage Their assistant at the same time pulling Gomes to the side ( and at least in my head giving him instructions to stop being useless) Broja's face after Long scored.

Everton barring 5 minutes either side of ht were complete garbage. Saints excellent again. Any Chance everton will do a Leicester(Bertrand) and sign Shane Long?

I want the striker passing to elyounessi who has a chance for a tap in that situation. Most of the time i don't mind his selfishness but there Broja was never going to score in a million years.

Would have liked to have seen a few more replays of the Calvert Lewin studs challenge (similar to how many of Stu armstrong challenge we saw). It may have been similar in lacking forward force but check seemed rather cursory.

Very frustrating half. Everton had the first 5 minutes but after that Saints on top just bad decision making / not taking chances. Hope it doesn't come back to bite us. Broja dangerous but mixture of too ball greedy and wanting too many tocuhes today. Elyounessi has been very quiet. I'd take him off personally.

Really hope we can push on and win this game. The usual fear is after the burst of national publicity we'll deflate and lose to a poor everton.

Seems to me lots of political gaming going on from both sides. Seemed to me invasion was always unlikely but equally the fact there was macho posturing from both sides elevates the risk. I don’t like Putin but I can see why russia would have political concerns over nato as well as the Ukrainian situation. Hopefully the saner minds in Europe can prevail and navigate a politically acceptable way out of this tit for tat escalation.

Curious as to why this game hasn't been re-arranged yet? See a bunch of other re-arranged games are being played on Wed 23rd

Rangnick "We have to understand where we are. [Southampton] won 2-3 at Tottenham, and they expected to win easily. We got a point today; we expected three and needed three, but that is the situation. That is why there was a change of manager and why we are here." Lol, I'm guessing he meant Spurs but sounds like he's suggesting Saints expected 3 against United.

Ralph also pointing out he's not good off his line.

Cant see any issue with the ref from a saints perspective. Easily could have given a few saints players bookings later on but we came out without a single one so hard to complain about not giving Man U even more.

No i'd move on from him. Giving him a new long term contract would be a mistake. He's going an ok job for now. We're doing our best to play to his strengths and limit exposure of his weaknesses. I'd be happy to replace with Johnstone on a free in the summer as a replacement(who's younger and a stronger allrounder) let alone whoever else we may have scouted.

Think Stephens should play every time we play united. He's mouthy and given they are delicate daisies he's perfect for such games. Great to get a point. Fully deserved. Slight disappointment not to get the 3. Second half we were the better team. Shame armstrong and Broja finishes were lacking. Ralph got his subs perfect today.

Anyone got a decent alternate stream. Hesgoal seemed to be dying

Stephens on to give Fernandes a bit of abuse

Found it really annoying despite showing multiple replays that BT Sport commentators failed to even notice Sancho's shot came off KWP.

Thought Armstrong had scored with that volley. Overall the score probably a fair reflection. They've looked very dangerous breaking on us. Saints looked ok but not quite as sharp as wednesday. Hopefully Ralph will look to freshen up early in the second half.

I'll wait until we actually see the Saints performance before proclaiming anything on that subject.

Wouldn’t mind seeing Stephens in for bednarek. He’s was weakest of defenders in midweek and would be good to see Stephens renew his feud with Fernandes.

How can anyone have Zouma in but not Greenwood.

There seems to be a 'let's have a fight' spiral happening. Worryingly no one seems to be trying defuse the tension instead its all about macho posturing. Curious if its a post covid thing because we've seen a definite uptick in the likes of football related disturbances etc too.

Nice to have this as a bit of a free hit. Was desperate for us to win one of these two (as a real statement result) and we've already done that. Curious to see degree of rotation given the sharp turnaround. Ralph didn't seem too trusting of his bench yesterday and we don't know if any of the missing will be back. Equally in past Armstrong has picked up knocks in (sat/wed/sat) turnarounds. So do you rotate to protect against injuries.

To me you can argue whether Broja backing in was a foul but ref clearly saw player clatter into the back of broja’s head and broja staying down. Atrocious/dangerous of the ref not to immediately stop the game.